Ronbo, I guess no place is perfect. Some items off the top of my head since I live in Texas.

Texas also has a lot of debt they are trying to deal with. I believe it is almost as big as Kali. Somewhere in the area of 25 billion. As someone else posted it can get quite hot in the summer. I live in the Dallas area and it is fairly flat, can get those string of 100 degree days in the summer, and in my opinion the land not very pretty in this area. I've been to east Texas and it gets a little more hilly and greener. Sales tax, and property tax is not cheap. No state tax so they have to get it somewhere. Did a google search and it showed 7 states without a state tax. I could think of 5, since Wayne said they did not have the state tax.. Link below of the 7 states.